The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-16

nad been specially nOtlned that any pun |
licly expressed sympathy with Father Nc
Glynn would be locked Upsa as defiance
of episcopal authority, Notwithstanding
this notice the boxes were crowlei with
priests, and the radical sentiments which
gayo such ofTense 10 the Archbishop were
the very ones that werc applauded to the
echo. The first 10 be made martyr 10
his contumacy Is Father Curran, Father
McGlyna's late assistant at ST. Stephens,
and he hrs been ordered 10 cloister on
diet of bread and water during Passion
week, and IL Is further in iaisted that oc-
casionsl self nAgellation win scarcely be
considered adequate puni; hment for lis re
bellious sin. Right here comes the uHes
tion-What is TO be done with the hun
lreds Of other recalcitrants wlro day arc
in open rebellion against thc Archbishops
authority.
In The city Of Brooklyn there is no name
held in greater reverence than that OF
Father Sylvester Malone; under his priest
" care st. rcter AID st. Paurs has grown
fiom weak and struggling church TO be
one Of the snost powerful and Influential in
the city. L, is safe TO say that Father Ma
lore has ba2tised fully two-thirJs of his
vast congregation, and IL within their pow
cr 10 canonize him his name would soon be
added to the calendar Of Saints His pop
| ularity is not confined to the Catholic
church, his Protestant neigh5orS think
fully as much Of him as his own congrega-
zion. lie is enc Of those priests " lso would
never he rich it he had u gold mine Ia draw
| on, fer the cry OF want never reaches hi,
csr uuhocGed. Bat though broad anl lb
eral in his views Oh every subject, civil OF
religious, there is no strictpr churchman
than lin. TO him the Catholic church rep
resents tho purest spirit of godliness, so
that he is a Catholic from conviction as
| well as education. 1t must be something
more than ordinary that brings man of
| his sterling religious character in violent
conflict with his ecclesiastical sureriors,
and he is reported by one of the foremost
journals TO have bitterly denounced the ac-
ton Of the Archbishop in his condemnation
of Father McGlynn and Father Curran.
We nov wait with batcd breath to see
what will be done with Father Malone. If
an attack should be made on Brookiyn's
favorte pastor and he Should be taken
from his charge,you may have an explosion
alongside OF which the McGlynn controver
sy would be as fire cracker TO q Krupp
gun.
Passion week is a season Of religious dis
cipline anyway,and fasting and prayer may
bring all the contestants to better frame
of mind. A present the clouds look rath-
er dark, and it is possible that timid ap-
peal may be made to Rome against tie ty-
ranny of the Archbishop. In the history
of the church but few appeals, if any, OF
like character have eyer been male before,
but the Vatican can scarcely turn deaf
ear to the demand Of the American priest
hood for justice, even though that demand
should end in the displacement OF an Arch
bishop.
Few persons who read the newspapers
can have failed to notice the looseness OF
the marriage relations in mott of our large
cities. The true inwardness OF those rela-
tionships are unfortunately not apparent
till after the death of the principal sinner.
In a recent trial before the Surrogate S
Court, four widows appeared in one case;
IN two there were three contestants; and In
FIVE there were two certcstants-all claim
lag tc be l:wful wives. Some of these
lives read like n romance. One man kept
up dual liie for over thirty years, raised
;wo families and supported double char
artcr. With the first wi;e he figured as a
poor mechanic; with wife No. 2 he was n
well to do merchant. Wife No. did hcI
own washing a d nend.ng. and helped to
support the family by sewing. Wife No.
had fine house, peny chaise. plenty OF
servants and pew in 4 fashionable church.
)n the trial il appeared that the second
wife, who had bornc her husbands name
ter quarter Of century, and had raised
10 him a large family OF children, had new
er undergone any ceremony of marriage,
bat had lived all these years under loost
agreement, which left her children illegiti
male in he eye Of the law. Fortunately
in this instance, tie father had provided
for them in hio will out of his abundant
means, and the nisery Of roye;ty was no,
added to the disgrace Of illeS'inlacy.
In the case Of Miss Donlngton, wh:c;
ultimately ended in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT o.
Dr. Fultcn's church, she WAS SUI posed tC
, 70 TIE adcp'eI daughter of an oil instr
tnce agent by the name CT Counsellor Mr.
: Counsellor dropped dead one day al the ems
. of the Brooklyn Bridge, and although h,
i had been supporting Miss bennington ir
= Brooklyn 1t was discovered that he had all
& other family in Newark. The affair caused
+ a good deal Of scandalous talk at the time
Miss bennington and her mother had row
. The girl took refuge with member of DR.
a FUlton's church and DR.. Fulton undertook
e to discipline his church member, insteac
of which he got disciplined himself and th,
: other night resigned.
The most recent case is that Of oss
Masterson, who carried things with about
as high hand as any man on record whe
I. has escaped States Prison for having 8
= plurality cf wives. He was married to q
i, most estimable lady with whom he lived
for twenty years; he had also an adopted
G daughter who WAS grown to womanhood
, One day he brought home wife No 2
several years younger than his adopted
daughter, and installed her as mistress Of
the house. There were occasional fights
and in one OF the encounters wife No. 4.
lost enough Of her blonde hair to make a
respectable ehignon for the adopted daugh,
> ter The young wife was loaded with
diamonds, camers hair shawls, sealskir
sacques, ten dollar shoes and FIVE dollar
stockings. Wife No. l seems to have been
su6jected to the grOssest indignlty all hi.